[@Lumiere] I wasnt expecting no magic, but I was expecting practioners to be fairly uncommon, but magic items, like weapons with enchanted magic skills to equip and enhance your combat forte, and similar things. A unique enough set of skills could be coupled with a melee character just by equipping them with the right magic skill enchanted jewels. If playing a spell caster wasnt feasible, the implication seemed to be that you could customize your character in that way to make them novel and unique.